Highly recommended and on PBS this week (sorry for the late notice): Carrier.

This 10-hour documentary follows a six-month deployment of the U.S.S. Nimitz, ">CVN-68. This is not Top Gun, this is a realistic, honest, excellent look at all levels of the ship, from the air wings to the guys who clean the toilets. It is not glamorous, it doesn't spin too far to the positive or the negative. This is what "reality television" never even gets close to being.

I was in the Army, not the Navy, but this is a very good depiction of the "rough men" who protect us while we sleep.

A darn fine effort. A DVD will be out in May; I've already put in a pre-order.

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Fred's Reading Report (March 200

It was the best of times...oh, never mind!

Reading was impacted by a temporary increase in hours worked. So, I feel like I have not done as well as the first two months of the year.

Books read: 7. Bourdain...A Cook's Tour. O'Brian...Master & Commander. Pournelle...The Endless Frontier, Volume 1. Ramsay...Roasting in Hell's Kitchen. Ringo...The Last Centurion. Ringo...Princess of Wands. Whittemore...Quin's Shanghai Circus.

134 short works read. Goal for the year 365; goal for month, to reach 91; goal for next month...121 (so I'm ahead for the year, so far!)

Current reads, on deck, on Mount Toberead...I'm increasingly shuffling the piles, so it is easier just to list what is finished rather than what is being read!

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